1.   Belmonte predicted an earnings recovery in the second half of the year as the company collects payments for asset sales and taps better grades of ore at Antamok.

2.   According to Hill, if an earnings recovery is to take place later this year, the pace of advance warnings should begin to decelerate soon.

3.   Even so, analysts said, Unilever is well on the way to earnings recovery.

4.   He also dismissed the hope of a quick economic and earnings recovery in the second half of the year.

5.   Results over the past week show that retailers are staging an earnings recovery, thanks mainly to cost-cutting.

6.   Supermarkets and department stores staged an earnings recovery in the year ended February, and they expect earnings to rise again this year.

7.   Still, after the long slump, department stores have staged an earnings recovery by cutting distribution costs, as well as by adjusting to consumer tastes.

8.   A major factor behind the earnings recovery was the boost to commissions which accompanied a rebound in equity trading.

9.   A segment of bank stocks also closed lower as investors turned cautious to their earnings recovery prospects, brokers said.

10.   Some analysts are quite optimistic that the economic recovery will also turn into an earnings recovery.